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Advance directives and patient autonomy

 Categories:  Licensee-Patient Relationship

Advertising and publicity

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Availability of licensees to their patients

 Categories:  Licensee-Patient Relationship

Capital punishment

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Care of the patient undergoing surgical or other invasive procedure

 Categories:  Clinical Practice

Child maltreatment

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Clinician obligation to complete a certificate of death

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Ethics and Professionalism

Competence and reentry to the active practice of medicine

 Categories:  Termination of/Reentry to Medical Practice

Contact with patients before prescribing

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Licensee-Patient Relationship, Prescribing

Corporate practice of medicine

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Ethics and Professionalism

Departures from or closings of medical practices

 Categories:  Termination of/Reentry to Medical Practice

Drug overdose prevention

 Categories:  Prescribing

Guidelines for Avoiding Misunderstandings During Patient Encounters and Physical Examinations

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

HIV/HBV infected health care workers

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Joint Statement on Pain Management in End-of-Life Care (Adopted by the North Carolina Medical, Nursing, and Pharmacy Boards)

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Licensee-Patient Relationship

Laser surgery

 Categories:  Clinical Practice

MEDICAL RECORDS – Documentation, Electronic Health Records, Access, and Retention

 Categories:  Medical Records

Medical Testimony

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Office-based procedures

 Categories:  Clinical Practice

Palliative Care and End-of-life Responsibilities

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Licensee-Patient Relationship

Physician practice drift

 Categories:  Clinical Practice

Physician supervision of other licensed health care practitioners

 Categories:  Clinical Practice

Policy for the use of audio or visual recordings in patient care

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Ethics and Professionalism

Policy for the use of opioids for the treatment of pain

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Prescribing

Prescribing controlled substances for other than validated medical or therapeutic purposes, with particular reference to substance or preparations with anabolic properties

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Prescribing

Professional Behavior Within the Healthcare Team*

 Categories:  Clinical Practice

Professional obligations pertaining to incompetence, impairment or unethical conduct of licensees

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Professional use of social media

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Referral fees and fee splitting

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Sale of goods from physician offices

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Self-treatment and treatment of family members

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Prescribing

Sexual exploitation of patients

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

Telemedicine

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Prescribing

The medical supervisor-trainee relationship

 Categories:  Clinical Practice

The physician-patient relationship

 Categories:  Licensee-Patient Relationship

The retired physician/licensee

 Categories:  Termination of/Reentry to Medical Practice

Unethical agreements in complaint settlements

 Categories:  Ethics and Professionalism

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Writing of prescriptions

 Categories:  Clinical Practice, Prescribing